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Astronomers versus activists: the battle over San Diego’s streetlights – Physics World
Placing scientific laboratories in their local communities poses special challenges, says Robert P Crease
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Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a surprising magnetic personality – Physics World
The magnetic field surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has been observed for the first time. Astronomers using...
My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionDear Readers,
Last July, I read this memo to the staff and explained why I had made the difficult decision to move on from my...
Dispatches from the Great North American eclipse of 2024 – Physics World
Physics World’s office is a long way from the path of totality for yesterday’s solar eclipse, which covered a swathe of North America from...
IQT the Hague Update: Babak Saif, Program Scientist for Quantum Communications at NASA is a 2024 Speaker – Inside Quantum Technology
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 06 Apr 2024
The IQT The Hague conference, a pivotal gathering for quantum technology...
Baryon acoustic oscillations hint that dark energy may have changed over time – Physics World
Preliminary observations made by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) hint that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe has not been constant...
Planet-gobbling stars are more common than we thought – Physics World
Roughly one in 12 main-sequence binary stars may have ingested a planet at some point in its past, say astronomers in Australia. This conclusion,...
Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with...
Construction complete on the 3200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera – Physics World
Scientists and engineers have announced the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – the largest camera ever built. Taking almost...
Now We Can See the Magnetic Maelstrom Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
Black holes are known for ferocious gravitational fields. Anything wandering too close, even light, will be swallowed up. But other forces may be at...
‘Dark Stars’: Dark Matter May Form Exploding Stars—Finding Them Could Help Reveal What It’s Made Of
Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal...
Compton camera measures gamma-ray polarization in nuclear physics experiment – Physics World
A Compton camera has been used to measure the polarization of gamma rays in a nuclear physics experiment. This was done by a team...
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-size rocky planet. Knowing of no way that phosphine could be...